Geoffrey Latham

Geoffrey Chitty Latham (15 March 1887 – 23 September 1980) was an English first-class cricketer and colonial administrator.

Geoffrey Latham

Personal information
Full name	Geoffrey Chitty Latham
Born	15 March 1887 Shanghai, Jiangsu, China
Died	23 September 1980(1980-09-23) (aged 93) Farnham, Surrey, England
Batting	Right-handed
Relations	Thomas Latham (father)
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1907	Oxford University
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 1 Runs scored 25 Batting average 12.50 100s/50s –/– Top score 22 Catches/stumpings 1/–
Source: Cricinfo, 24 June 2020

The son of the cricketer and judge Thomas Latham, he was born in China in March 1887. He was educated at Winchester College, before going up to Magdalen College, Oxford.^[1] While studying at Oxford, he made a single appearance in first-class cricket for Oxford University against Sussex at Eastbourne in 1907.^[2] Batting twice in the match, he was run out for 22 runs in the Oxford first innings, while in their second innings he was dismissed for 3 runs by George Cox.^[3]

After graduating from Oxford, Latham joined the Colonial Service in 1910.^[4] During the First World War he was a lieutenant in the Northern Rhodesia Police and was decorated by France with the Légion d'honneur in August 1917.^[5] He was appointed the first inspector of schools in Northern Rhodesia in 1920.^[6] In April 1924, Latham was made director of the newly created sub-department for native education in Northern Rhodesia.^[4] Despite his opposition to the introduction of film to native Rhodesians, in case it became politicized as it had in British India, Latham changed his stance in the early 1930s in an effort to expand and improve native education.^[7] Latham died at Waverley Abbey House near Farnham in September 1980. His son was the artist John Latham.^[8]

References

1. Winchester College, 1836-1906: A Register. P. and G. Wells. 1907. p. 596.
2. "First-Class Matches played by Geoffrey Latham". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
3. "Sussex v Oxford University, 1907". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
4. Snelson, Peter Desmond (1990). Educational Development in Northern Rhodesia, 1883-1945. Kenneth Kaunda Foundation. p. 148.
5. "No. 30264". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 August 1917. p. 9109.
6. Milner-Thornton, Juliette Bridgette (2012). The Long Shadow of the British Empire: The Ongoing Legacies of Race and Class in Zambia. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 76. ISBN 978-0230340183.
7. Reynolds, Glenn (2015). Colonial Cinema in Africa: Origins, Images, Audiences. McFarland. p. 178. ISBN 9780786479856.
8. Moorhouse, P. (23 September 2010). "Latham, John Aubrey Clarendon (1921–2006), artist.". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/97022. Retrieved 24 June 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

External links

• Geoffrey Latham at ESPNcricinfo